Redistribution

We all heard a lot from and about Obama in his campaign and early presidential days about redistribution of wealth. We haven't heard much about that lately, and probably with good reason: he's taken the idea of redistribution and applied it to health care, this time with the elderly losing out.

Think about it; as a community organizer, Obama revealed his core as a "social justice" type, meaning that essentially, all people should have more or less equal outcomes (as opposed to the American ideal of equal opportunity).

In Obama's mind, equal outcome can be achieved in a variety of ways, but concerning healthcare, in order to get the bulk of the money shifted away from the elderly and middle class and toward the poor, he'd have to remake the entire healthcare system.

It's easier to hide his true intent this way, by casting the entirety of the healthcare system as completely broken, and necessary to remake it.

Just like any good con man playing a shell game, Obama and the democrats needed speed to push it through, so no one would catch on to what they were doing. That didn't work. However, Americans being the trusting (read: dopey) souls that we are, Obama may still get what he wants; that is, unless the voters speak out even more loudly than we have.